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By the early twenty-first century, the black population of San Francisco was less than half of what it had been in 1970.
In San Francisco, for example, the black population has been cut in half since 1970, and in some other coastal California counties it has not been uncommon for the black population to decline by 10,000 or more just between the 1990 and 2000 censuses,27 even when the total population of these counties was growing.
Another curious fact, which received much less attention at the time, was that the Army tests in the First World War showed white soldiers from Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi scoring lower on mental tests than black soldiers from Ohio, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania.12 However, the black population as a whole was overwhelmingly concentrated in the South at that time, which may explain why the Army tests showed blacks scoring below the immigrants that they scored above in civilian tests conducted where they both went to the same schools in the North.
Yet Mencken was by no means sanguine about the prospects of the black population as a whole:
Nevertheless, Roosevelt's low estimate of the contemporary level of knowledge and understanding among black Americans117 might place him under at least a suspicion of racism by those today who project contemporary standards back into the past, or who perhaps think of the black population of the past as if they were simply today's black population living in an earlier time, rather than a population which in that era included millions of people who had not yet acquired even the ability to read and write.
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